Word: arduous
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Night life in wartime Manhattan is terrific. War workers and service men want to hit the high spots. Men about to go into service want to drink farewell toasts. Buyers need a lift, burghers a change. Money is free, travel restricted, the present arduous, the future uncertain...
Adolf Hitler remained strangely hidden, strangely silent. Berlin suggested that he was resting after arduous labors on the Russian front. On the thin shoulders of Propaganda Minister Paul Joseph Goebbels fell the job of exhorting the German people: "Are you willing to continue the war with wild determination, unshaken by all vicissitudes of fate...
Indicted for carrying poliomyelitis, the house mouse last week was convicted of typhus. George Brigham and Edgar G. Perkins of the U.S. Public Health Service announced in Public Health Reports that they had after arduous research recovered typhus virus from seven Georgia house mice-first proof that U.S. house mice can carry the disease...
...prison cell; 2) emaciation that had reduced him from 160 pounds to half as much. Last week imperishable, cheerful Editor Powell was still convalescing, expects to be for many more weeks. But he now weighs 110, one foot is healed. When the other is ready, Powell will begin arduous exercises, finally will be fitted with artificial feet (a job made easier by U.S. doctors, who saved his heels). His days and nights he spends receiving visitors and answering letters, reading (mostly books about the Far East and detective stories) and writing. One of his articles already has been published...
This organization will pass on to the Army Adjutant General's office the names of those men it feels to be best suited for this arduous work, basing its decisions in each case on a candidate's general experience in outdoor work and any particular qualifications he may have. "Men who have lived and worked in the mountains are preferred; if they ski, so much the better," states the official Ski Patrol bulletin on this subject. However, applicants who can show exceptional fitness as raw material, although without previous outdoor experience, will be considered...